The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a very different one.
Between 1940 and 1945 London suffered 101 daylight and 253 nighttime air raids from the Luftwaffe and V1 and V2’s. There were 80,000 fatalities or serious injuries and appalling devastation. Well...
Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres. Delayed due to...
By July 1940, Britain stood alone in Europe. Hitler’s troops had reached the French coast after storming their way across northern Europe and, following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary...
Students from Trinity College Cambridge Who Died During the Great War
by Nigel McCrery
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781399049009
Pub Date: 2025-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
600 Pages
This is the story of just one Cambridge college and the effect the First World War had on it. One college, reflecting the effect of the other thirty. Between 1914 and 1918 over 600 undergraduates from...
In this, the sixth of Dilip Sarkar’s unprecedented eight-volume series, the day-by-day events occurring in the fourth phase of the Battle of Britain are chronicled and set within a much wide context,...
"Breaking Seas, Broken Ships carries the torch from Britain and the Ocean Road with grace, placing the human connections at the heart of each chapter. Based on original scholarship and taking refreshing...
During the Second World War, how were the multitude of items required by the soldiers in the front line selected, ordered and delivered, and how were they produced? In this the second volume in her...
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